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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Global rights group Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Friday to end its “post-election crackdown” which has seen four critics arrested in the aftermath of the government’s worst electoral result. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new president. Opposition deputies on Monday broadcast the recording of a conversation they said was between powerful state television commentator Mario Silva and a Cuban intelligence agent and later requested an investigation of it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Saudi Arabia has announced another death from the Sars-like novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its central al-Qassim region, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 17. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite earning a civil servant’s salary for three decades, Taib Mahmud, the powerful chief minister of Malaysia’s Sarawak state, is reputed by critics to be one of Asia’s richest men. Taib, 77, and his family are accused of massive corruption and running Malaysia’s largest state like a family business, controlling its biggest companies with stakes in hundreds of corporations in Malaysia and abroad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A former Wan Chai divisional commander was convicted on one count of misconduct in public office on Thursday for taking discounts from a restaurant. Titus Wong Koon-ho, 51, was found guilty of receiving gifts and discounts worth HK$5,500 from Chan Teen Bistro in exchange for turning a blind eye to liquor licence violations in 2011. Wong later approved its licence application, despite knowing that the Causeway Bay restaurant had illegally served alcohol, the Eastern Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Josh Rogin, on May 22nd, 2013 With U.N. investigators unable to enter Syria, the State Department is working to bring evidence that the regime has used chemical weapons across the border into Turkey, reports Josh Rogin.
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called “truly shocking”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 61-year-old Irishman was charged in Britain yesterday, with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen’s ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some US$6.5 billion in losses to the economy, UN experts said. Health authorities worldwide must be on the lookout to detect the virus, which could still develop the ability to spread easily among humans and cause a deadly influenza pandemic, the experts said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two US pathologists on Wednesday supported Singapore police findings that an American scientist found hanged last year in the city-state committed suicide and was not murdered as his family claims. Medical examiners David Fowler of Maryland and Valerie Rao of Florida testified as independent experts a day after the family of the late researcher Shane Todd walked out of a coroner’s inquest in Singapore. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading US experts reject murder theory in Shane Todd’s death in Singapore
By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese students and parents are demanding an apology from US Vice-President Joe Biden for “insensitive” comments, weeks after he referred to China as the nation that cannot “think different” or “breathe free” during a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia and two of his adult children were infected with it, the Tunisian Health Ministry reported. His sons were treated and have since recovered but the rest of the family remains under medical observation, the ministry said in a statement on Monday. The World Health Organisation confirmed the cases of the children, but said one of them was a daughter who was with her father for part of the trip to Saudi Arabia and Qatar. There was no immediate way to reconcile the differing reports. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, a Japanese mayor said in comments reported on Tuesday, days after he provoked a storm by labelling second world war sex slaves a military necessity. In a remark that provoked a sharp response from Seoul, further stoking tensions, Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto said the South Korean military used women for sex during the Vietnam war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The family of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner’s inquiry into their son’s death on Tuesday, saying they had “lost faith” in the proceedings. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, national health authorities said, for the first time since the outbreak began in March. One previously infected patient died in the week beginning between May 13, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement late on Monday, taking the total number of fatalities from the virus to 36. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, on May 21st, 2013 Judge Schira A. Scheindlin, hearing a civil rights lawsuit against the city on stop-and-frisk practices, said 88 percent of street stops find no criminal evidence.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan yesterday ordered all law-enforcement personnel to step up the protection of Filipinos on the island, after a suggestion that Manila might evacuate its nationals from the island after hearing reports of attacks targeting them. “We have instructed all prosecutorial and law-enforcement agencies to step up protection and take preventive measures against any assaults and harassment of Philippine nationals in Taiwan,” Justice Minister Tseng Yung-fu told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The high court in Zhejiang province has ruled that two men wrongfully convicted of murder should each receive about 1.1 million yuan (HK$1.25 million) in compensation after serving 10 years in jail. In an online statement posted yesterday, the court said Zhang Gaoping his nephew, Zhang Hui , would each be awarded 656,000 yuan for loss of personal freedom, and 450,000 yuan for mental damage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Pair get 1.1m yuan each after decade in jail for murder they didn’t commit
By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock markets higher Monday. A gauge of future economic activity issued Friday rose more than expected, a sign that the world’s biggest economy is improving. Consumer confidence also rose, offsetting several lackluster reports on slowing manufacturing and an increase in applications for unemployment benefits. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Amnesty urges Malaysia to end post-election crackdown
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Global rights group Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Friday to end its “post-election crackdown” which has seen four critics arrested in the aftermath of the government’s worst electoral result. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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